On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 12:03:30PM -0400, Matt Sergeant said:
> Apparently the Jabber::* code isn't very good (that's what I've heard,
> don't meant to offend anyone). Try looking at the code in DJabberd instead.
In an interesting twist I switched the example server away from being
livejournal.com (and hence DJabberD) and ... it all started working.
I was kind of hoping not have to go spelunking into server code to make
a client but it's looking like it's what I may have to do :(